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Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tahitian Society: Rise of the Pomares written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824884531
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tahitian Society written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tahitian Society: Social relations written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tahiti is far famed yet too little known." Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders' way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence-a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo'orea from about 1767 to 1815-a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tahitian Society: Ethnography written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmond de Bovis
Publisher : Institute for Polynesian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tahitian Society Before the Arrival of the Europeans written by Edmond de Bovis and published by Institute for Polynesian Studies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Two Tahitian Villages written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1981 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2e de couv.: This book is based on two years of field study supplemented by the archival research that went into the writing of the author's three-volume Ancient Tahitian Society. It has three objectives: -to describe in detail the activities and social relations of rural Tahitians in the mid-twentieth century; -to do so by the method of "controlled comparison"; and in doing so -to focus on the economies of the villagers studied. The ways of life portrayed in these pages were products of nearly two centuries of contact between Polynesians and Europeans, but still contained many features of the aboriginal culture described in Ancient Tahitian Society. Subsequent to the field study, however, these islands were subjected to new and much more massive kinds of outside influences (mainly those resulting from expanded tourism and from France's nuclear experiments nearby), so that much of what is described in this book has disappeared, which lends extra value to the description - another relic to be placed in the Museum of Humanity's Past. Because of anthropologist's inability (and unwillingness) to conduct sufficiently controlled experiments upon the societies they study, the method of controlled comparison employed in writing this book has been proposed as the sole means of arriving at scientific generalizations. It is left to the reader to judge whether this opinion has been confirmed. As for the book's focus on the "economics of village life," an effort has been made to broaden the applicability and the usefulness of this way of viewing human societies-large or small industrialized or "primitive."
Author : Victoria S. Lockwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555873172
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Tahitian Transformation written by Victoria S. Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernisation and incorporation into the French welfare state.
Author : Teuira Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tahiti written by Teuira Henry and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History and Culture in the Society Islands written by Edward Smith Craighill Handy and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Ancient Polynesian Society written by Irving Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert I. Levy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226476073
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Tahitians written by Robert I. Levy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1975-08-15 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work in several fields—person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history—documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. Tahitians is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres. "This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."—Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351487140
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Tahiti written by Ben R. Finney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization." This study of Tahitian life concentrates upon two different communities. One is a peasant community moving from subsistence farming to an increased reliance upon the production of cash crops. The other is a proletarian community whose members were at the time abandoning farming and fishing in favor of wage labor. Finney compares the two contemporaneous communities, enabling him to define different but interrelated variables of the economic and social change. These are responsible for Tahiti's evolution from a subsistence oriented peasant life to a life based increasingly on cash crops and wage labor. What happens to family life, work patterns, land use, and other traditional modes of social organization when a small, underdeveloped society is confronted with economic forces largely beyond its control? In dealing with this question as it applies to Tahiti, Finney makes an important contribution to our understanding of how modernization affects a society once thought to be outside the boundaries of the modern world. A major study in English of the socio-economic forces at work in Tahiti, this book provides the reader with both an understanding of the changing nature of Tahitian life, and the reactions of Tahitians to such changes.
Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
ISBN 13 : 9780918373335
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Tahiti-Polynesia Handbook written by David Stanley and published by David Stanley. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roseline NgCheong-Lum
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780761406822
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Tahiti written by Roseline NgCheong-Lum and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography and history - Government - Lifestyle and religion - Language - Arts and leisure - Festivals - Food.
Author : Roseline Ngcheong-Lum
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502627353
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Tahiti written by Roseline Ngcheong-Lum and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti is a paradise in the Pacific Ocean, but what how did it become a country? This book explores the origins of Tahiti and its place in modern society. It examines cultural aspects such as language, religion, history, and economy. Full of colorful photographs and detailed, up-to-date information, this book is a fantastic resource for young readers wanting to learn more about the countries of the world.
Author : Miriam Kahn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599102X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Tahiti Beyond the Postcard written by Miriam Kahn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti evokes visions of white beaches and beautiful women. This imagined paradise, created by Euro-American romanticism, endures today as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry, while quite a different place is inhabited and experienced by ta'ata ma'ohi, as Tahitians refer to themselves. This book brings into dialogue the perspectives on place of both Tahitians and Europeans. Miriam Kahn is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Always Hungry, Never Greedy.
Author : Jennifer Newell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824832817
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Trading Nature written by Jennifer Newell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I's ethnographical museum in St. Petersburg. Russia's strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition and embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships' commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists, Siberian merchants, Baltic Naval Officers, even Japanese passengers. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago on May 7, 1804, and for the next twelve days, the naval officers revolted against Rezanov's command while complex cross-cultural encounters between Russians and islanders occurred. Elena Govor recounts the voyage, reconstructing and exploring in depth the tumultuous events of the Russians' stay in Nuku Hiva; the course of the mutiny, its resolution and aftermath; and the extent and nature of the contact between Nuku Hivans and Russians. Book jacket.
